Zerbini (2009)

The Zerbini [Doormats], are presented in 2009 during the exhibition Fabio Mauri, etc at the Galleria Michela Rizzo in Venice.

Some of the works are: Lo zerbino ariano [The Aryan doormat], Studio Bocchi, Rome, 1995; then the L’ospite armeno [The Armenian guest], Venice, 2001; and also Lo zerbino Insolubile [The insoluble doormat], galleria Martano, Turin, 2008.

Mauri scatters thoughts, words, considerations across the floor, and the audience can read and walk on them.    They are a metaphor for our incomplete mental processes.  They are meaningful because they are inside the thought: when walking on them, it is not possible not to be inside their meaning. The Zerbini show signs of daily reflection. They reject, but, at the same time, they bring us closer to experiencing something which is similar to the real state of things, i.e. to a truth which is always a metaphor for larger or smaller, shorter or more certain truths. (Dora Aceto)

Exhibition dates and venues

1995 – Arierwiege, Studio Bocchi, Rome

2001 – L’ospite armeno [The Armenian guest], Gardens of Palazzo Zenobio and Loggia del Temanza, Venice

2008 - Fabio Mauri: L’Insolubile [Fabio Mauri: The insoluble], Galleria Martano, Turin, curated by Liliana Dematteis

2009 - Fabio Mauri, etc., Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice, curated by Martina Cavallarin

2009 – Fabio Mauri, GC.AC – Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone, curated by Andrea Bruciati

2012 – dOCUMENTA (13), Hauptbahnhof, Kassel, directed by Carolyn Christov Bakargiev

2012 –  Fabio Mauri - The End, Palazzo Reale, Milano, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti

2013 – Amore e Psiche, la favola dell'anima, Palazzo Barolo, Torino, curated by Elena Fontanella

2014 – Fabio Mauri, Fondaciòn PROA, Buenos Aires, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio

2014 – Fabio Mauri. Etica e estetica, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Torino, curated by Massimo Melotti

2015 – Fabio Mauri I WAS NOT NEW, Galleria Hauser&Wirth, New York, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément

2016 – Attraverso parole, Fondazione La Verde La Malfa, San Giovanni La Punta , curated by Giuseppina Radice

2016 – Fabio Mauri Retrospettiva a luce solida, Museo MADRE, Napoli, a cura di Laura Cherubini e Andrea Viliani

2017 – FABIO MAURI (SENZA ARTE), Galleria Bergamin & Gomide, San Paolo, Brasile

2017 – Fabio Mauri, Villa Medici, Roma

2017 – Il tempo e le opere, Museo della Grafica - Palazzo Lanfranchi, Pisa, a cura di Massimo Melotti

2019 – Mauri | Muntadas, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venezia, a cura di Laura Cherubini